Justification:
While this species suffers from many threats across its range and it is slowly declining, it still occurs in more then 10 independent populations (treated as separate locations), many of which are small and vulnerable. It is not expected to be declining fast enough to qualify for a threatened category, but it is suspected to have declined by nearly 30% over the past 10 years and therefore is close to meeting Vulnerable under criterion A2. It is therefore assessed as Near Threatened.

This species is relatively ubiquitous and resistant against many threats. But water resources are so limited and shrinking in the area, that the species suffers from massive water abstraction, pollution and the withdraw of waters by reservoirs, which leave seasonally no water below the dams. Furthermore, climate change leads to reduction in rainfall in the area and growing human populations and economic development lead to increasing water demands. At the same time, water is abstracted more and more efficient.